traceym

I used to get really wound up by it all, now I just laugh, they're not going to change so laugh at it!

However..........Don't start me on the IDIOTS in the Bank, I cannot laugh at them, 3 tellers, a manager, a random woman from the back office and 30 minutes of my life wasted to withdraw $5000!

Mummy in the foothills

I've been paying through the banks website I had no idea they actually print a check and mail it How is that going to save them money in the long run, they are paying my postage.

As for the OP's whine, eh it's a foreign country they do things their own way.
I got really pissed off when I found I had to pay a £10 charge for paying with a CC online in the UK for ferry tickets, it was a UK CC too, but me thinking it would be cheaper to pay at the travel agents instead then, found out I'd need to pay the same £10 fee for paying there, well just hike the bloody price £10 and stop adding stuff on then!
I'm told a lot of UK sites charge to pay with a CC online, how stupid is that one!

Sally Redux

The Americans don't think it's insulting and the Anus went off his rocker

traceym

So if the Americans don't do the British? Sorry I'm with candy cant do 15 pages!

Sally Redux

I think it's not a word we use back home. The 15 pages don't really clarify Just a load of name-calling

traceym

Nothing new there then

Giantaxe

Because they no longer have the cost of processing anywhere near as many checks if people use online bill paying because so many of the payments do end up being made by electronic means.

Elvira

In my book, 'retarded' is nearly as inappropriate as 'spastic'.

Sally Redux

I don't like it, but it's used over here an awful lot, therefore OP may have just absorbed it.

Hellopaul

What if it's pronounced "riTARD" like on the movie The Hangover, with the emphasis on the second syllable? That probably makes it absolutely fine. Or something.

It's a word I rarely (if ever) used until I came over here and 'absorbed' some of the ambient retardation.

candy wy.

I have been over here to long then, cause I thought I used it back in the uk but maybe I just picked it up over here..

Gingerert

I cannot believe we're even having this discussion. I've made my point and I'm absolutely horrified that I'm raising my lovely little boy in a world where grown adults think it's okay to use words that deeply hurt the most vulnerable in society.

I hope he never, ever has to hear that word and if he does, that he doesn't realise it's intended to cause him pain. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

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elfman

some states and other local government entities here still have offices called "Department of Mental Retardation".

Sally Redux

My brain hurts.

candy wy.

I will make no comment..............